Geography 7.7.6

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
1st century BCE/ 1st century CE
1st century BCE
1st century CE
Location of Display
Rome or Alexandria
Reference
Geography 7.7.6
Quotation
ηὐτύχει μὲν οὖν καὶ πρότερον ἡ πόλις αὕτη διαφερόντως (τὴν γοῦν ἐπωνυμίαν ἐντεῦθεν ἔσχηκεν ὁ κόλπος), μάλιστα δ᾽ ἐκόσμησεν αὐτὴν Πύρρος βασιλείῳ χρησάμενος τῷ τόπῳ… . ἡ μὲν οὖν Νικόπολις εὐανδρεῖ καὶ λαμβάνει καθ᾽ ἡμέραν ἐπίδοσιν, χώραν τε ἔχουσα πολλὴν καὶ τὸν ἐκ τῶν λαφύρων κόσμον, τό τε κατασκευασθὲν τέμενος ἐν τῷ προαστείῳ τὸ μὲν εἰς τὸν ἀγῶνα τὸν πεντετηρικὸν ἐν ἄλσει ἔχοντι γυμνάσιόν τε καὶ στάδιον, τὸ δ᾽ ἐν τῷ ὑπερκειμένῳ τοῦ ἄλσους ἱερῷ λόφῳ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος.
Type of Thing Ornamented
Object/ Person Ornamented
Ambracia and Nicopolis
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Architecture: Infrastructure
Architecture: Building
Medium/a Ornamenting
Presumably buildings, architecture, and infrastructure
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Pyrrhus
Augustus
Item Identifier
A01023
Determination
Interpreted from context